A fascinating Popular Science article delves into a fundamental question that has intrigued scientists for centuries: Why don't molecules ever stop moving? The article explores the concept of molecular motion, a phenomenon that governs everything from the weather we experience to the very processes within our bodies.
The piece features research and insights from Prof. Justin Caram, an associate professor of chemistry at UCLA and a distinguished alumnus of the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry. Caram's uses his expertise, honed during his time in the Greg Engel Lab at UChicago, to help untangle molecular complexities and how temperature relates to molecular movement and explores the quantum mechanical principles, such as the uncertainty principle, that explain why this motion never ceases.